The 1962 Rangoon University protests Agree_or_refuse_to_act were a series of marches , demonstrations , and protests against stricter campus regulations , the end of the system of university self-administration , and the policy of the new military regime of General Ne Win .

In the aftermath of the violent crackdown on the student protests , the Government of Ne Win immediately closed all universities for four months and sent Sending all students home .

General Ne Win prominently illustrated the continuing symbolic power associated with the protests when he referred in his departure speech in 1988 to the destruction Destroying of the RUSU building as `` one of the key episodes '' during his time in power .

The games was opened Openness and closed Self_motion by Ne Win , the President of Burma at the Bogyoke Aung San Stadium .